Grandmother’s horror as stranger gives her baby grandson ‘prolonged’ kiss on the lips

A grandmother from Manchester has told reporters of her shock after a stranger approached her while she was sat in a café, and demanded to kiss her baby grandson.

Linda Hamer, 53, was in Bolton’s Odessa Cafe with nine-month-old Nixon Foster when the woman approached them saying: “I am not leaving until I’ve kissed this baby.”

Before Linda could stop her, the stranger held Nixon by the cheeks as she kissed him on the lips.

Shop worker Linda later told the Manchester Evening News: “People in the café were shocked and I was left speechless by what happened.

“I would never kiss Nixon on the lips and he’s my grandson. I think parents are permitted to kiss their own babies on the lips, but random strangers could have all kinds of diseases.”

“You have no idea where they have been, I could tell the woman involved had been smoking.

“I saw others having lunch looking on in horror as it happened – it was quite a prolonged kiss.”

As soon as the woman moved away from the baby Ms Hamer wiped his lips and mouth with a facecloth.

“The woman left the cafe before I could say anything,” she added, “but it’s just not right to come up to a little baby and kiss them on the lips. Even kissing them on the cheek is a bit much from a stranger.”

“It was horrendous, completely over-stepping what is acceptable and it happened so fast.

Another customer at the café who witnessed the incident said: “It was appalling. The woman concerned was a total space invader – she just thrust herself towards the poor child and a baby cannot push anyone away. It was just so wrong.”